S3 and EFS gets new intelligent tiering features
For AWS customers managing data across business units, teams, and products, unpredictable access patterns are often the norm. So, AWS S3 intelligent tiering was first introduced in 2018 and this feature automatically optimizes costs by moving data between access tiers as access patterns change.
If you are not aware of S3 we would recommend you to look at our article on the basics of AWS S3.
New two features now AWS has added to its S3 intelligent tiering are:
- S3 Intelligent-Tiering now has no minimum storage duration period for all objects.
- Monitoring and automation charges are no longer collected for objects smaller than 128 KB.
With these new features S3 Intelligent-Tiering is the ideal storage class for data with unknown, changing, or unpredictable access patterns, independent of object size or retention period.
S3 Intelligent-Tiering is available in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.
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AWS Elastic File System provides a simple, serverless, set-and-forget, elastic file system that lets you share file data without provisioning or managing storage.
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) offers four storage classes: two Standard storage classes, Amazon EFS Standard and Amazon EFS Standard-Infrequent Access (EFS Standard-IA), and two One Zone storage classes, Amazon EFS One Zone, and Amazon EFS One Zone-Infrequent Access (EFS One Zone-IA). Standard storage classes store data within and across multiple availability zones (AZ). One Zone storage classes store data redundantly within a single AZ, at a 47 percent lower price compared to file systems using Standard storage classes, for workloads that don’t require multi-AZ resilience.
Read more about EFS in our other article below.
With this new feature of the EFS intelligent tier, it automatically optimizes costs for shared file storage when data access patterns change, without operational overhead.
With EFS Intelligent-Tiering, lifecycle management monitors the access patterns of your file system and moves files that have not been accessed for the duration of the lifecycle policy from EFS Standard or EFS One Zone to EFS Standard-IA or EFS One Zone-IA, depending on whether your file system uses EFS Standard or EFS One Zone storage classes. If the file is accessed again, it is moved back to EFS Standard or EFS One Zone storage classes.
Amazon EFS Intelligent-Tiering is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon EFS is available.
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